Our Brain Is 'null'! Cognitive Biases Applied to the Developer's Craft
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The talk explains how common cognitive and social-psychology biases affect software development tasks like estimating effort, understanding requirements, and decisions about practices such as test-first development. It describes specific biases that lead to misestimates and misunderstandings and offers concrete tools and techniques developers can use to mitigate these cognitive pitfalls.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Who am I?
- 2:10Our brain is "null"
- 8:48What is a bias?
- 10:38The Dunning-Kruger effect
- 14:07The real strategies
- 20:55TDD
- 22:58The echo chamber
- 23:44Escalation of commitment
- 28:02Bringing change
- 28:55Too much time, too much money
- 31:00The survivor bias
- 33:40Remediation methods
- 36:20Some resources
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